Wednesday, February 4, 2004

'Now I realise they're more like little soccer balls. Much faster gratification.'

School, whew. Long day.

First, thanks Michael for remembering to pick me up for seminary this morning. Bleh. And we're supposed to have 100% attendence this year or something...x.x;

Mm, year eight breakfast this morning [and no, it didn't involve roasting them, however tantalising it may sound] [mm...small children, dipped in cheese?] we, as the year twelves and the seniors, mingled and fed the ravenous beasts.

It was pretty good, everyone saw my little bro and said, 'he doesn't look like you,' and Blair's friends came up to me and said, 'you don't look anything like Blair.'

Oh yeah, and they also said, 'you know, Blair is so much cooler than you.'

lol

Yeah, so Blair managed to avoid me, his friends accosted me, and I drank like three litres of orange-mango juice.

^_^;

One of Blair's friends came up to me, the first. She noticed my last name on the senior jersey I was wearing [damn the usefulness of the thing, damn it all] and asked if he was my brother, etc etc.

Kauter and others got involved in in the situation and eventually someone asked, 'so who's you're older brother?'

She'd mentioned that she had an older brother, and it turned out to be Lachlan Close

About this point I resisted the urge to burst out laughing.

Why? Well, 'ole Closey had been the bane of my existence in year ten, causing a rather depressing few days in my life that resulted in some folorn/self pitying literature of mine.

Irony that his little sister should become such good friends with my little brother, no?

Musical practice this 'arvy was really good. There's a completely different air about it now, last year everyone started off self-concious and didn't loosen up until the end.

Now however, people are insisting on being complete and utter dags. [note the australianism :P]. Somehow 95% of the guys ended up with their polo shirts tucked into their pants and pulled up as high as they could go.

So, Dave and I, and to a lesser extent, Mark [who turned out to be le mole! *points* and had to be shot], started le revolution!

Basically it meant we started talking in a husky french accent [which we had been doing for days and hadn't a reason until then] and talking about a revolution that would entail untucked polo shirts and unbuttoned top buttons.

Hey. It was an excuse to have fun.

'Dave, see their tucked in shirts and their buttons. Those smelly english-pig-dog kashniggits!'

Dave: *rips button out with teeth*

Mark: 'Dave...what are you doing...?'

Dave: *spits button at Mark* *bites of second button* I have a second button for ze next man who questions my unbuttoned!

Eheh. Good times.

Le revolutione!

Basically the french accent went on for a while, with us recruiting people, and calling people British spies, and moles etc.

Dave: I burrowed in ze pathetic British secret intelligence, zey did not know they I was zere, you see

''ow can you burrow into their secret intelligence when they have no intelligence, let alone a secret one?'

*weird dirty/husky french laughter*

^_^;

So yeah, interesting day. Being tackled hugged by people, putting on accents, being told that my brother's friends think I'm hot...um..yeah.

x.X;

I do have a good quote for you though.

...which I have to give you tomorrow...x.x;
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Tuesday, February 3, 2004

'and that was about when I realised that I couldn't feel my inner aura'


Feh, I missed out on the first musical meeting of the year. This does not bode well for me.

x.X;

's not my fault that I didn't know until Hannah said to me after school [before I went to catch my bus] 'see you at the meeting.'

Welp, if it was tomorrow, it'd be right, because Mum gets paid then, therefore we have petrol. Also I didn't have a phone to ring home, which I couldn't anyway because Dad has the car in Brisbane until 5:30

x.X

Well, I succeeded in weirding Jay out. I wandered into their conversation, walked up casually and hugged him around the waist. Even if it was because I wanted his wall to lean against, it was still hilarious.

Also, it has been told to Dave and myself that we are becoming too much alike. Is that such a bad thing?

You need two crazy like-minded guys at highschool. It's a must, ...and my lifelong dream?

Oh yeah! All the people who got call-backs have been informed today that they have roles in the musical.

*teary* I'm so proud of them!

[Dave got the lead ^_____^]

*much waving of the hands in the air for them*

There's something else. I figured out some really awesome stuff to do for my major Art piece, oh yeah, Mrs Franklin came up to me and said that I'm the senior or whatever that's in charge of Global service's affairs or something.

Weird eh?
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Monday, February 2, 2004

'Go away, you smelly English pig-dog type person, or I will be forced to taunt you a second time!'

According to the notices, I'm not on the call-back list for the musical, but that's okay, because it means I can still bum around and act like an idiot.

However there are others that should be congratulated.

Mark,Dave,Jeorge, Luci,, Lauren and Ellinore

There are others, of course, but I can't remember them.

Either way, I knew Mark could sing, the shifty little hiding-singing-voice-guy. Jeorge falls into the same boat.

^_^

I messed up my french accent pretty bad in my audition, but I made up for it by using an outrageous one with Dave all day long.

Hehe...

I was going to say various other interesting things, but I've lost my train of thought.

*waves*

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Saturday, January 31, 2004

Does Bill Gates play Halo?
Ugh...musical auditions today. I'm wondering about my sanity in selecting something from the 'lead role non singing' bit.

^_^;

Ah well, btchya they aren't expecting me to sing 'see my vest' from that simpson episode.

^_^
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Thursday, January 29, 2004

Well I already tried blaming immigrants, if that's what you're thinking..

Okay, Emu Gulley, I know I promised more, but I can't think of much more to say.

Ah wait. When we finished the Kokoda Track, completely covered from the neck down in clay based mud, Shaun [another legend. You need a guy like him around, other wise you'd go mad], well he cries out in the famous piratey voice;

'Yaharr! This be dirty work says I!'

Like I said, another legend.

I mean, you need a healthy balance of people in the world. Everyone acts completely different when they're not at school.

You need some sort of release, I suppose.

I mean, for Dave and I, it's completely and utterly random insanity.

For those of you that don't have this thing happening, most of us [heh, thanks to my lazy requests] ask for things that will never happen.

Under normal circumstances and ommitting faux pas.

For instance, when one's honour is 'breached,' one does not fly back with an insult. One laughs it off and does the following;

*pathetic attempt to slap person, missing by miles*

'Ehn...*insert name here* beat yourself for me. I'm too lazy'

Get the idea?

Well one of those arose today, except it was Mark saying to me, 'Liam. Crashtackle Edward for me.'

So um, yeah, I did. lol

Lifted him off his feet and threw him to the ground.

lol

^_^;

A little insanity goes a long way.

Did I mention the muscial auditions?

Well they're on this Sunday, and I was going to get Mark and Dave to sing the Canadian National Anthem for Mr Hughes who, oddly enough, is Canadian.

Welp, I was planning on us all turning up with red Maple leaves sticky taped to us and someone else running around with the Canadian flag in the background.

I thought it'd be rather nice, but Dave and Mark piked out [*shakes fist* lol] and so, I shall plan for us to do it at a later date.

Instead, I shall sing the Simpson's 'See My Vest' song.

^_^

Mind you, Eleanor burned me pretty harshly. It was nothing at the time, I was paying only half attention, but yeah.

Basically I was talking to Mark about the song and said, 'I'm not sure if I should sing-

-well don't.'

In an incredibly nasty tone of voice.

Ouch. I really shouldn't have reflected on the conversation. Meh, she's probably right anyway. I do kind of suck, and it doesn't seem as though Mrs Timbs really cares either way.

*shrugs*

Ah well, I can always cheer for Dave from the chorous.

^_^

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

After two years at the top of the Xbox charts, Halo has finally proven the wise Confucian adage, "All other games can just piss off and die."
Wow, I've got a lot to say in this entry, don't I?

Well first off, [sorry about the lack of detail, my brain still hasn't turned on..or off...for that matter] Emu gulley rocked.

We have to have the coolest, most uber-friendly/helpful/surprising group ever

Now, I'm sure that when the other CLP [Community Living Program, you could call them roll call groups] groups get back, they'll wish to contest this, but hey, they've still got another six hours [it's 4:31pm now] and they haven't done the night hike yet.

The night hike.

From the first look, it was pure evil.

From the look back, it was a difficult exercise that really showed a person's character.

I don't know what the angle of the incline was on those washed out hills, but they looked like almost vertical cliffs, from every angle you looked at them.

It was really weird, after we slid own, with a stretcher on this weird slide, we hit the first of many climbs.

Because of the rain, most of the hand-hols had been washed away, leaving what appeared to be a hard, dry red-dirt surface.

It was insane, but everyone leant a hand and we got the person on the stretcher up beatifully.

The surreal part was when we got to the very top. I climbed up on to the lever ground and it was like, 'stepping out of swimming pool' feeling, you know, out of underlying harm's way.

And then it was, 'why are there two feral camels standing a couple of metres away from me? ...and why are they looking at me funny...'

In that night, you could see that everyone's mindset had changed.

Once you were up, instantly you turned round to make sure your mates knew where the footholds were, to give a hand.

I'm sure the guy in charge would be proud.

The whole camp was based on the Anzac spirit. Now normally, I'd put the last two words in quotation marks, but that would trivialise it, and I don't want that to happen.

It's true like that guy said, when Aussie's come under pressure, we stick together.

I mean, everyone helped everyone else. There was one bit where we had to make our way around the walls of this water tank to the ladder on the other side, with out our feet getting wet.

[six inches of green/brown water on the bottom]

It was really...well, you could say inspiring or beautifully surreal, when I climbed up this rope to get through the tunnel and to the tank.

The whole way Dave Wardle was shouting 'C'orn Liam, that's right, yeah'

and other encouragements followed.

That wasn't the last of it. I got into the tank and I found Rhett, Matt Dave and Alex Godfrey all standing in the ankle deep smelly water.

Godfrey points out the handholds to me, and I grab on and go to make my way around, and suddenly he sits me on his shoulder and carries me all the way round, pointing out the holds as we went.

Task|Team|Individual

We'd all been given the task that, if we fell in the water, it was our duty to make sure we didn't make the handholds slippery by getting back on the wall.

These guys could have easily made their way to the ladder, but they stayed behind and made sure every last one of us was out and dry.

The same sort of self sacrifice was in it the whole way through.

Now I'm sure most of you out there are scoffing at this, thinking about what a daft idea it is.

Quite frankly, I'm going to say it in the politest way possible, keep your anally retentive self-serving attitude to yourself. You ain't gettin' much further in life.

Thankyou.

The little activities, such as the Tunnel Rats of Vietnam that I mentioned before, really provided a base for us.

We did those activities, and then we hit The Kokoda Track

Pure mud, pure clay mud.

Me and the other tall guys [dare I use my australianism and say blokes?] were sunk up to our waists, and it was a real problem if we wanted to go anyway but forward.

The whole way through, everyone was making sure that the person next to them didn't end up face first in the peat.

Rhett was a total legend.

Years 8-10, I basically thought he was an idiot. I took him up on face value and sunconsciously put him as a hick.

Looks like the title I placed on him should be stuck to me.

On retreat, he showed part of his true character, at Emu Gulley, we saw his core, and seriously, he was a total legend.

I'll update more later, it's hot now and I have to do the dishes. Oh yeah, first real day back at school tomorrow.
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Monday, January 26, 2004

I smiled weakly at the man. It was, after all, the first time I had ever been given the excrement of a jungle animal as a token of appreciation. Temple


Great, Emu Gulley tomorrow. I mean, it's not as though I'm going to hate it, I actually might enjoy it, it's just the possibility that I'm going to hate it, just only later.

x.X;

Ah well, iono, it should be fun. With all the mud and the running and the jumping and the crawling and the being forced to do stuff.

After all, if we're going to spend 14, hours or so there, it has to be good.

What else?

Umm..raked the yard...umm...went to a Seminary thing which, apart from the fun in between, really sucked.

[I mean, c'mon, I've seen both the movies before, and the latter only a couple days ago. Oh yeah, the movies? Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde Two]

If I had stayed home, I would not have missed out on yet another X-box Link-up

I've only been to one, and it was alright. I've missed out on four others because I was out.

Today was the fourth.

My loyalty to my Seminary class sometimes galls me.

lol

Ah well, there's always next time, isn't there?

..no wait, there isn't. School starts tomorrow...irony or something like it, eh?

There is a glimmer on the horizon, cloricus informed me that he's thinking of setting up a 'box lan, some serious goodness going on there.

The idea of 25 people duking it out in Blood Gulch just makes me want to salivate, lol.

Mmmm...Slayer...no-one would be able to get any guns...hee...^_^

Team Slayer would be awesome too, you'd be able to fill up all the vehicles, no probs.

So so very good...x.x;

*cough*

Anyhow, before I went off to gaming la-la land, what was I rambling about? *scrolls up* That's right, school and seminary.

With Dad now back at Uni, he'll have to get up early to travel down and arrive on time. Now, from a non-seminary student outlook, that doesn't matter, the bus is cool.

Not for me, I have seminary [which is the highlight of my school day, second of course to my lessons, I mean..um...friends. That's right, you read this now, don't you?] and with it starting at 7am, Mum can usually just drop me off on her way to work and I can hitch a ride with Sis. Antuar.

With Dad going in early, I get dropped off, at the latest, at 6:30 in the morning.

Much being early and having nothing to do.

Basically it means I have to get up around 5, [because if I get up at 5:30 I'll be half asleep still at 6, big no-no if you're in a hurry]. I'm going to have to fight for the shower, and my conciousness.

x.X;

Ah well, it's all part of last-year hectic lifestyle, I guess.

Ooo! Ooo! [I can't believe I just said that, lol]

This April, TFY is back on!

Mmmm...seriously good stuff. It's on every three years, so this is my last one, or my second last one, whatever, depends if I'm 19 or 18 in the last year. [and 19 year-olds can be counsellors, which would be awesome].

I'm looking forward too it, I mean now that we have so many more youth now that are over 14, I'll actually have people from my own ward to talk to.

Last time I was kind of thrown out there by myself, which was cool [but I was not, lol. Go the geekiness ~_^], but it kind of sucked.

This time now, I'm a heckuva lot more confident, so I won't be sitting around and hiding in my bucket hat, avoiding people.

^_^;

I wasted too much time at the last TFY with getting confident enough to approach people, this time I'm just going to be me.

^_^

[Is it just me or does no-one pay attention to the long entries, lol]

Ah well, tea's almost ready and I've got to start getting stuff ready for tomorrow.

Oh and I'm sorry Britty, but apparently I just missed catching you by half an hour.

^_^;


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Saturday, January 24, 2004

“Oh no. Lookout Superheroman, it’s Evil Arch Villain Guy’s goons. They look evil.”

Wow, small rectangle frames, dark blue with the clip-on shades.

I could probably call them gothic, but they aren't exactly angular with silver frames. Ah well, the point is that I'm getting them in two weeks time.

And hopefully some blue tinted contacts in the same period.

The underlining problem here is, however, until my eyesight is at standard, or assisted, I cannot apply for my learners.

It's just more walls of red tape, ain't it?

I'm sure Mrs Ellyett would disagree with me on the point that magnets are physically only able to attract like metals, so I'll speak metaphorically.

I'm a magnet for red tape and people I know.

I mean, every time I have gone downtown this week, I have seen/met someone I know. I mean, I went into Grandcentral about 6pm, for an optometrist appointment, and met Toby.

lol

Before that, I saw Marshy [who told me a couple hours before that at the movies that he knew I was going because he read this. And I didn't even know he had the link. *waves to Marshy*]

Oh yeah, and minutes before the appointment I got a wave from Gosper [*swoons* lol]

Before I forget, today I went into Big W with Dad because he needed to buy some new jeans [I convinced him to buy some cheaper, cooler, cargoes instead. Go me] and I saw Mr Birkett and a few mintues later I saw my previous Ancient teacher, you know her. Um.

What's her name again?

Whatever, the point is that I skillfully avoided their gaze.

Oh yeah, and I also saw Anita inside, but she doesn't exactly count, as she works there, lol.

*rubs head*

And I've also got an incredibly painful headache that's just been getting worse since I decimated the backyard population of grass/mowed.

9am-12:30pm

x.x;

Much of the whippersnipping in 30 degree heat and no breezes whatsoever. It probably didn't help that my work jeans were black, but hey, my fault.

At least it's in the past now, and my arms are seriously brown, but I doubt that's going to last, lol.

Eugh...spam in my RPG thread. *tries to brush it away*

I'd post tonight, but I think I've melted my brain. The amount of typing errors I've made and had to fix up in this post is absolutely insane.

*does a bow with the flowery hand movement*

*...and dies*

X.x;
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004

What would be the legal implications of Dracula having AIDs?

Stupid not having birth certificateness.

x.X;

It's coming in the mail, and then I can do my test. Ah well. Today was good, in that there was much stuff getting and having of the best gelati thickshakes, ever.

I'm serious, their were. They were also $5.30, but when I drank half of it, I discovered that the bottom half had solidified.

So very, very good.

X.x;

Tomorrow I'm going to the movies with Mark, 'toldi and whoever else we can lay our greedy mitts on.

Yay!

^_^
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Monday, January 19, 2004

But one fateful day, she is kidnapped for some unknown evil reason, by none other than... Evil Arch Villain Guy. Who is evil.
Sorry about the absence of my entries, I've been all over the place.

One of these places being a Jewish Orthodox Synagogue that had been built, in the 1860's, in an unusual Byzantine style.

But that's beside the point.

I'm going for my Learner's tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get it. 'toldi said he got it dead easy, and that most of the questions are just common sense.

So wish me luck, and that I can find two secondary documents that state that I exist.

x.X;

My apologies also for the sorry state that SYF is in. I'll sort it out after I've done my Learner's test.

There's just too much happening, and school starts in six days. Cripes, and I haven't even got all my stuff yet.

Must do that tomorrow.

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